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Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows — ‘What a world you’ve got inside you.’ | The On Being Project
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The deep feelings we have buried are those which belong to the child we were, the child who was innocent and free and who knew joy until his spirit was broken by being made to feel guilty and ashamed of his natural impulses. That child still lives in our hearts and in our guts but we have lost contact with it, which means we have lost contact with
... See moreAlexander Lowen • Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life (Compass)
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
Doug Gillette • 2 highlights
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James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
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Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been ali
... See moreThe old fairy tales, we are told by their modern interpreters, Bruno Bettelheim, Robert Bly, Joseph Campbell, and Clarissa Pinkola Estes, are ancient maps, offering their own guidance for the development of full human beings.